64 Illustrations of Conifers. 



CEPHALOTAXUS DRUPACEA (SieboM ami Zucmnni). 



Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat., Vol. II. p. 108 (1840). 



Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. XXI. p. 118 (1884) with fig. 



Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 112 (1900). 



Trees of Great Britain and Inland, Vol. VI. p. 14C9 (1912). 



A small tree with spreading branches, attaining in the mountains 

 of Japan and Central China a height of 20 to 40 feet. In culti- 

 vation it is usually shrubby in habit scarcely exceeding 10 feet in 

 height. Branchlets shining green, prominently grooved. Buds small, 

 about j 1 ,, inch long, green, with ovate-lanceolate, imbricate scales. 



Leaves about 1 to li~ inch long, shortly stalked, linear-lanceolate, 

 abruptly pointed, curving upwards and outwards in a pectinate 

 arrangement, dark green and lustrous above ; paler beneath with 

 lines of stomata forming broad bands on either side of the midrib. 

 Staminate flowers I inch in diameter, in pairs along the underside of 

 shoots of the preceding year. Fruit pyriform, 1 inch long by f inch 

 in diameter at the broadest part, chestnut-brown when ripe. 



Cephalotaxiis drvjmcea, which was introduced into cultivation at 

 Leyden about 1829 by Siebold, is wild in the mountains of Japan, 

 where it is widely distributed at altitudes ranging between 1,000 

 and 3,000 feet. It also occurs in Central China. 



The photograph represents a specimen obtained from Kew Gar- 

 dens. 



